“You don’t have to be loud to be bold.” That’s what I was told once in a prayer session two weeks before I received the sacrament of confirmation. I had asked my fellow candidates and catechumens to pray that I would be bold in my faith. Just 30 minutes before I was nearly shaking ...
I'm going to warn you right away: this may seem a little sappy. I don't apologize for that. I'm an emotional person, and I've come to view that as one of my strengths. My emotions are closely tied to my passions, and over the last four years, one of those passions has become Alpena. Oddly ...
What’s that one chore you put off and put off? It’s on your to-do list all the time, but never gets scratched off, so you just move it to your next list knowing it most likely will get put off again. For me, it’s dusting, a fairly simple chore but one I do get around to when the dust is ...
WASHINGTON -- The city takes a deep breath after the president's IndyCar auto races came and went without crashing a precious Smithsonian artwork, and before Congress returns. Cicadas and tennis balls make background music. Thank god we didn't lose a Cezanne or Renoir as IndyCar drivers ...
The trial of Lindsay Clancy forces us to confront a tragedy almost beyond human comprehension: A mother killed her three young children -- 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan -- inside their Massachusetts home. We must begin with those children. They were innocent, ...
Where does Tom Homan go to get his apology? When Trump put his border czar in charge of unwinding the controversial DHS operation in Minneapolis earlier this year, critics on the right believed that Homan would be the instrument of a broad Trump climb-down on his signature issue. Gregory ...
